Happy Nirvana

Photo via The Telegraph Oshine the orangutan has a bit of a weight problem. After being kept as a pet for 13 years, lazing around and eating junk-food, the portly primate ballooned up to 220 pounds – but she should soon be on the right track to a hea… Read the full story on TreeHugger [...]

Hummus is one of my favorite refrigerator staples, it makes a crowd-pleasing party dip, a healthy snack for kids or even an alternative to mundane sandwich spreads.  You can find it packaged at the grocery store in a variety of styles—with  toasted pinenuts, roasted red peppers or even with jalapeños.  But why not make it yourself [...]

Avatar’s Home Tree Initiative heading to six continents. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox James Cameron already planted one million trees in Brazil last April. But the director has said Earth needs at least a billion more trees — not a million, and he’s enlisting 15 more countries to follow his lead, including the U.S. [...]

Once you come to the realization that working out at home is the perfect excuse buster for lack of time or money you will be well on your way to losing weight and feeling great. The reason is that you can build your own home gym with very little equipment. You can also get in [...]

For a great number of people out there their belief is that there is no point in starting an exercise program because they either can’t afford a gym membership or don’t have the time to go. However, there is an alternative and that alternative may just be even better at helping you to achieve your [...]

According to a new trial, patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) who are trained to check their blood pressure at home, according to some pre-determined rules, tend to experience a more significant fall in blood pressure, when compared to patients receiving conventional treatment. You can read about this in the latest issue of The Lancet… [...]

Acid reflux is not a nice feeling. Food and acid splash into the esophagus (the muscular tube that takes food after swallowing into the stomach) causing uncomfortable reactions from belching to heartburn and in some severe cases, chest pains. Some individuals have experienced pain so intense they thought they were having a heart attack. If [...]

One great exercise for tightening your waist and increasing core strength is a movement called abdominal "draw-ins." The way it works is by inhaling deeply and then as you exhale drawing in your "belly button" as far as you can. Your goal is to try to touch it to your spine (as far as you [...]